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Online-Photoshop Tutorials Forums

June 8, 2009 in Website News/Updates by Steve Tolley

Yep as you can probably see in the navigation bar at the top of the screen I have integrated some forums into this website this is for many reasons:

The Future For This Website

June 5, 2009 in Website News/Updates by Steve Tolley

Just a quick update at where I am with this website at the minute, As you all may know I have been at University the past few months and all the work involved with the assignments took up most of my time so I didn’t really have time to update this website with tutorials and posts.

User Link Feed

October 17, 2008 in Other/Misc by Steve Tolley

Hello! Welcome to the User Link Feed. Anyone can submit links with a short description which will then appear in the sidebar. Links must be approved before appearing and we filter out links that aren’t relevant to the audience. We generally want:

Making a Compact Disc Icon

October 6, 2008 in Designing by Steve Tolley

This tutorial will show you the steps and techniques used when creating a CD icon which can be used on websites etc… Very useful as the same techniques can be applied when making other icons/images

Monthly Roundup – September 08

October 1, 2008 in Articles by Steve Tolley

September has been a crazy month for me, getting prepared for university, trying to maintain this website, starting university and getting stuck in as well as releasing a second website it has all really kept me on my toes, hence the reason for the lack of posts/tutorials over the past week or two, hopefully things are settling down now and I can resume normal posting, roll on october…

Best of The Week – 15th To 21st September

September 21, 2008 in Articles by Steve Tolley

As of this week every sunday I am going to produce a ‘Best of The Week’ Selection where I will look through the weeks top Tutorials, Articles and Resources and produce a list of the best ones found, This being my first some feedback in the comments would be appreciated to say whether or not you like the idea,

The ‘Creativity’ Wallpaper

September 18, 2008 in Designing, Website News/Updates by Steve Tolley

This tutorial is possibly one of my favourites as I love the outcome, we are going to create a desktop wallpaper with a bit of a difference, we will use a range of techniques and most importantly we are going to use our imagination and creativity skills,

Advertising on Photoshop Tutorials

September 17, 2008 in Website News/Updates by Steve Tolley

Yes that’s right, Buysellads accepted me into their beta period to try out their advertising scheme, so what’s available I hear you ask, well…

Creating A Grungy Banner

September 4, 2008 in Designing, Web Graphics by Steve Tolley

This tutorial will show you how to create a grungy style banner that can be used on posters or on websites, it is a very simple process and therefore quite a short tutorial but offers techniques which can be used on any project,

Creating A Vector Style MacBook From Scratch

September 1, 2008 in Designing by Steve Tolley

This tutorial is quite a long one, so I would go get a drink now if I were you, OK we are going to make a MacBook Pro in Photoshop using shapes and different blending options, combining these two simple things we get a realistic vector outcome which can be used in many different situations, so…let’s begin,

Making A Social Bookmark Background

August 30, 2008 in Designing by Steve Tolley

This tutorial will show you how to make the cool image you often see behind the social bookmark links at the bottom of posts on most websites, some are more elaborate than others which helps to make your social bookmarks stand out more, I will show you how to make the background image and what techniques i used in order to get the effect I have ended up with, they are basic steps but ones that can be applied to other situations,

The New Website

August 23, 2008 in Website News/Updates by Steve Tolley

WordPress…

As you can probably see the website has changed, as I was promising for quite a while on the old website I was working on a new design, and this is the outcome, so far I havent finished absolutely everything yet as there is still some pages and posts that need to be arranged and added, but I thought I would get most of it uploaded and then finish it from there.

Bringing Backgrounds To Life Part 1

August 18, 2008 in Textures by Steve Tolley

OK my first tutorial for quite a while now, after successfully securing a place in university I am ready to start posting again whilst looking for a decent host for my new website design (any help appreciated) to get me back into the swing of things I am going to do a relatively easy tutorial to start with, but one I think is very useful when making any type of image that looks a bit plain and boring, the best way to make these sorts of images look better is to simply apply a texture over the top of your background or specific part of the document (e.g. Text) and it is much easier than you may think

Simple Web 2.0 Logo

April 11, 2008 in Text Effects by Steve Tolley

This tutorial is very simple to complete but still gives a nice finish to a cool Web 2.0 style logo for a website etc…only takes around 5 minutes to complete and shows some good techniques which can be used in the future when designing other Web 2.0 Style objects.